I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom.
My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.
Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.
If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.
I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.
For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.
What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.
When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.
I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
a criminal sketch of Christ on a diner napkin -'Poet Prophets
...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...
Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
I still have a desire to do some sketch comedy. My dream is to be on 'SNL,' to host 'SNL.'
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
